Brands like Barry Callebaut and Lindt embrace upcycled cacao fruit, reducing waste and boosting sustainability. Discover how ...

Farmers can boost their crop yields without sacrificing the genetic diversity of the plants. Researchers develop unexpected ...

A chocolatier has told how the increasing price of raw ingredients to make the sweet treats has made the last 12 months "the ...

The crop — the raw, unprocessed form of cocoa beans — has two primary harvest ... After flowering, it takes about five to six months for the pods to mature. Once ripe, the pods are harvested ...

On the rainy side of Hawai‘i Island, Daeus Bencomo steps through fresh mud in his cowboy boots, rows of leafy cacao trees on ...

These pods are shaped like a football and can come in a variety ... These brownish flakes then get the same treatment as traditional cocoa beans — drying, roasting, grinding. But this all happens much ...

The wet and humid conditions allowed a fungal infection called black pod disease to flourish, rotting cocoa beans on the trees. Ms Rumsey said her business was paying about three times as much for ...